Gaza Reels from Strikes That Underscore Scope of Deep-Rooted

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Toll After Nine Days of Fighting More than 240 people have died as of Tuesday, Gaza Reels From Strikes 10 MILES the vast majority of them Palestinians killed by Jenin Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip. Mediterranean Sea That Underscore Scope Deaths in the occupied territories Deaths in Israel Tulkarm Of Deep-Rooted Misery Nablus 12 people were killed in Hamas rocket and Marda Village No Progress Reported Toward Cease-Fire missile attacks. Ramat Gan Salfit 2 people died in Rishon This article is by Iyad Abuheweila, European Union, Hungary, called civil unrest. LeZion WEST BANK Adam Rasgon, Isabel Kershner and for an immediate cease-fire in an Moshav Lod Marc Santora. emergency meeting on Tuesday. Netaim They backed a statement that con- Jericho GAZA CITY — The nine-day Ramallah JORDAN battle between Hamas militants demned rocket attacks by Hamas Moshav and the Israeli military has dam- and supported Israel’s right to self-defense but also cautioned North Shtulim East Jerusalem aged 17 hospitals and clinics in Gaza Gaza, wrecked its only coronavi- that it had “to be done in a propor- rus test laboratory, sent fetid tional manner and respecting in- ISRAEL wastewater into its streets and ternational humanitarian law,’’ ac- Ashkelon Al Arroub 22 people have died in broke water pipes serving at least cording to the bloc’s foreign policy the West Bank, mostly 800,000 people, setting off a hu- chief, Josep Borrell Fontelles. Gaza Netiv Ha’Asara Palestinians killed by manitarian crisis that is touching Israel and Hamas were locked City WEST Hebron Israeli security forces. GAZA nearly every civilian in the in cease-fire negotiations mediat- Sderot BANK STRIP crowded enclave of about two mil- ed by Egypt, Qatar and the United Al Fawwar lion people. Nations, but no progress was re- Central ported Tuesday as Israeli air- ISRAEL Sewage systems inside Gaza Gaza GAZA Israeli airstrikes have been destroyed. A desalina- planes continued to pound Gaza Khan STRIP killed at least tion plant that helped provide with missiles, and Hamas and its Younis 213 people in fresh water to 250,000 people in Islamist affiliates fired rockets the Gaza Strip. the territory is offline. Dozens of into Israel. Rafah schools have been damaged or At least 12 Israeli residents Eshkol closed, forcing some 600,000 stu- have been killed in the conflict; dents to miss classes. Some 72,000 the latest were two Thai citizens Note: Three deaths in the West Bank could not be located. One person was killed by Israeli forces on Israel’s border with Lebanon, according to Lebanese authorities. Gazans have been forced to flee who were hit by a rocket strike Sources: Palestinian Center for Human Rights; United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs; Palestinian Ministry of Health; Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs THE NEW YORK TIMES their homes. And at least 213 Pal- Tuesday afternoon at a food-pack- estinians have been killed, including site, the Israeli police said. ing dozens of children. Inside Israel and the occupied The level of destruction and loss territories, Palestinians held one of life in Gaza has underlined the of the largest collective protests in Biden and Netanyahu: Four Decades of Ups, Downs and Zigzags humanitarian challenge in the en- memory. Hundreds of thousands clave, already suffering under the Continued on Page A10 with the call. That conversation that Democrats are no longer sol- weight of an indefinite blockade was said to be significantly idly in Israel’s corner. By MICHAEL CROWLEY President Is Said to Use by Israel and Egypt even before stronger than an official summary and ANNIE KARNI Middle East experts and former the latest conflict. WASHINGTON — President released by the White House. It af- Sharper Private Tone United States officials say that As the crisis deepened there Biden has maintained his public firmed Israel’s right to self- many of Mr. Biden’s calculations were increasing international de- support toward Israel even as he defense and did not repeat calls by With Israeli Leader are rooted in a different era of mands for a cease-fire on Tuesday. adopted a somewhat sharper pri- many congressional Democrats American-Israeli relations — President Biden, who had pub- vate tone with Prime Minister for an immediate cease-fire. when Israel’s security concerns licly supported Israel’s right to de- Benjamin Netanyahu, a calculus That phone call and others chummy working relationship commanded far more attention fend itself, privately warned shaped by Mr. Biden’s longtime since the fighting started last through seven American presi- than Palestinian grievances — Prime Minister Benjamin Netan- relationship with the Israeli week reflect Mr. Biden and Mr. dencies — Mr. Netanyahu has and that his approach has less to yahu of Israel that he could not de- leader as well as by growing Netanyahu’s complicated 40-year been prime minister for four of do with the military situation on ter growing pressure from the in- hopes that Israel’s military opera- relationship. It began when Mr. them — and raging political bat- the ground than with domestic ternational community and tions against Hamas are nearing Netanyahu was the deputy chief tles over the Iran nuclear deal and politics and his broader foreign American politicians for much of mission at the Israeli Embassy policy agenda, including nuclear an end. Israeli settlement policy. longer, according to two people fa- JALAA MAREY/AFP — GETTY IMAGES In a phone call on Monday, Mr. in Washington and Mr. Biden was Today, that relationship is as talks with Iran. miliar with the call. The private Biden warned Mr. Netanyahu that a young senator with a passion for complicated as ever. Mr. Biden’s For his part, Mr. Netanyahu is message hinted at a time limit on SHUTTERED Stores were closed he could fend off criticism of the foreign affairs. Since then, they juggling act on Israel, always a fighting for his political life at Mr. Biden’s ability to provide dip- in Israel on Tuesday after hun- Gaza strikes for only so long, ac- have rarely seen eye to eye, but challenge for an American presi- home while trying to sustain sup- lomatic cover for Israel’s actions. dreds of thousands of Palestin- cording to two people familiar have forged an occasionally dent, is especially difficult given Continued on Page A11 And all but one member of the ians went on strike. Page A11.

Baseless or Not, County Sought Sites Sheltering Fears of Crime To Be Inclusive. Young Migrants On Subway Rise Not All Agreed. Come Up Short

This article is by Winnie Hu, Nate By REID J. EPSTEIN By EILEEN SULLIVAN Schweber and Sean Piccoli. WAUSAU, Wis. — A standing- WASHINGTON — In a federal No one has to tell Raoul Rivas room-only crowd packed a drab shelter in Dallas, migrant children that the subway is more danger- courthouse meeting room one re- sleep in a windowless convention ous these days. cent night and tried to resolve a center room under fluorescent He has the scars to prove it: thorny, yearlong debate over lights that never go dark. nine shiny silver staples running whether Marathon County should At a military base in El Paso, down his side following a strang- declare itself “a community for teenagers pile onto bunk cots, and er’s unprovoked attack. all.” some say they have gone days Mr. Rivas, 37, a construction The lone Black member of the without bathing. worker, and his girlfriend were county board, Supervisor William And in Erie, Pa., problems be- riding a train home from Lower Harris, stood up and begged his gan emerging within days of the Manhattan last month when he colleagues who opposed the reso- shelter’s creation: “Fire safety said a man screamed at them for lution to change their minds. system is a big concern,” an inter- no reason. As they got off the train “I want to feel like I’m a part of nal report noted. Some of the hot in the Bronx, the man rushed for- this community,’’ he said. “That’s water heaters were not working, ward with a knife, stabbing Mr. Ri- what a lot of our residents are say- and lice was “a big issue and vas five times. ing. We want to contribute to our seems to be increasing.” “People don’t get it, this is real,” community. We want to feel like a Early this year, children cross- he said. “I never thought I was go- part of this community.” ing the southwestern border in ing to be a victim, but things hap- But a fellow board member was record numbers were crammed pen. Thank God I’m here.” GABRIELA BHASKAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES just as passionate at the meeting into Customs and Border Protec- Though crime is always a possi- Maya Wiley, once a prominent analyst on MSNBC, has gained key union and political endorsements. on Thursday in arguing that ac- tion’s cold-floored, jail-like deten- bility on the New York City sub- knowledging racial disparities is tion facilities. They slept side by way, a recent rash of particularly itself a form of racism. side on mats with foil blankets, al- vicious attacks on riders and tran- “When we choose to isolate and most always far longer than the le- sit workers has fueled fears that elevate one group of people over gal limit of 72 hours. Republicans the sprawling underground sys- She Pitches ‘50 Ideas’ to New York’s Progressives another, that’s discrimination,” declared it a crisis. Democrats tem — a mainstay of urban life — demic and who are worried that said Supervisor Craig McEwen, a and immigration groups de- is more dangerous than it has retired police officer who is white. nounced the conditions, which the recovery is leaving them be- been in years and threatens to un- By EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS Mayoral Hopeful Aims When George Floyd was killed erupted into an international em- hind. dermine the city’s recovery. If there was a single moment in Minneapolis last May, commu- barrassment for President Biden, City officials and transit leaders that captured the essence of Maya to Make History for “You will no longer tell us we nities and businesses all over the who had campaigned on a return have clashed over whether sub- Wiley’s campaign for New York are not qualified,” Ms. Wiley said, world engaged in a reckoning to compassion in the immigration way crime has actually gotten City mayor, the Women for Maya Black Women before starting to chant “We over social justice, diversity and system. worse — the available data shows launch was it. lead!” with a crowd of supporters inclusion. But while scores of The administration responded a mixed picture — or whether it is She sat on a folding chair in who gathered at the event. other communities adopted new by rapidly setting up temporary, mostly a perception fed by a re- Central Park at the event this em, the feminist icon. Ms. Wiley, 57, offers a mix of ex- policies and issued proclamations emergency shelters, including lentless beat of headlines and month, at the foot of a statue de- Since entering the mayor’s race perience — she was a former vowing to make progress, the resi- some that could house thousands news alerts about subway vio- picting three historical figures of last year, Ms. Wiley has under- counsel to Mayor Bill de Blasio dents of Marathon County, with a of children. But the next potential lence that have scared many rid- women’s suffrage. To her immedi- scored how it is time for a woman and led the Civilian Complaint Re- population of 135,000 that is 91 crisis is coming into view. ers. ate right was Representative Ny- — a Black woman — to finally lead view Board — and a dose of celeb- percent white, couldn’t agree on “I know the administration Overall crime is down, but so is dia M. Velázquez, the first Puerto New York, someone who under- rity: As a prominent analyst for what to say. wants to take a victory lap for ridership, which has pushed the Rican woman elected to Con- stood the concerns of those who MSNBC, she won the attention of A year later, they still can’t. moving children out of Border Pa- Continued on Page A17 gress; to her left was Gloria Stein- struggled even before the pan- Continued on Page A20 Continued on Page A14 Continued on Page A16

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